WEBVTT - DONKEY: Critics Blast Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Transition Team

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<v Speaker 2>He mother e f and Hall Donkey of to day

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<v Speaker 2>for Tuesday, December ninth, goes to all these critics of

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<v Speaker 2>Zoran Mundanie's transition team.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, if you haven't.

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<v Speaker 2>Heard, Zoran Mundani, the mayor elect of New York City,

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<v Speaker 2>has been putting together his transition team. First of all,

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<v Speaker 2>what is a mayor elects transition team? A mayor's transition

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<v Speaker 2>team is a group of trusted advisors, experts, community leaders

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<v Speaker 2>assembled by a mayor elect between their election victory and

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<v Speaker 2>inauguration to prepare for governing. All right, they helped to

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<v Speaker 2>select key staff, and they helped to develop policy priorities.

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<v Speaker 2>Two people that Zoran has selected our two individuals I

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<v Speaker 2>support had the okay. One is our fearless leader, the

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<v Speaker 2>good sister to Mika Mallory dropping the clues boonds for

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<v Speaker 2>to Meka Mallory. The other is the good brother Masan

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<v Speaker 2>dropping the clues bombs from my son. Okay, I know

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<v Speaker 2>Mysians since like old stick to Old seven whenever he

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<v Speaker 2>first came home. Full disclosure. Not only are those my people,

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<v Speaker 2>I do business with both of them, Okay, My Imprint

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<v Speaker 2>of Emergency, How to Win in the Country We Built

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't know, now you know now. Both of them

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<v Speaker 2>have been named to Zoran Mundonnie's transition team. Excellent choices

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<v Speaker 2>if you ask me, you know why they are excellent

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<v Speaker 2>choices because they are true public servants, okay, who don't

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<v Speaker 2>give a damn about politics.

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<v Speaker 1>They care about the people.

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<v Speaker 2>They actually do the thankless work of activism, dropping the

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<v Speaker 2>clues bombs for their organization until freedom. And we all

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<v Speaker 2>know activism comes with great risk in very little rewards.

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<v Speaker 1>So when I saw Zoran add them to.

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<v Speaker 2>His transition team, I said, oh good, Okay, he's got

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of people that are that are going to

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<v Speaker 2>hold him accountable. And I knew they were great picks

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<v Speaker 2>when I saw the attacks.

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<v Speaker 1>Come for both of them mmediately. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>The headlines for Tamika where Mundani transition team includes Women's

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<v Speaker 2>March leader embroiled and anti Semitism scandal. Fox News headline

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<v Speaker 2>was Mundani taps disgraced activists who said one day we

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<v Speaker 2>can abolish police the Key Public Safety Committee.

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<v Speaker 1>Both of those headlines were about t Meeka Mallory.

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<v Speaker 2>Just because you are against the killing of innocent kids

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<v Speaker 2>and guys in Palestine doesn't make you anti Semitic. And

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<v Speaker 2>just because you believe you should reallocate funds from police

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<v Speaker 2>budgets the community based services like mental health, housing, education,

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<v Speaker 2>violence prevention, because you want to address the root causes

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<v Speaker 2>of crime. That don't mean you want to abolish police.

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<v Speaker 2>You just want to reduce reliance on policing for social issues, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>And you're promoting public safety through community well being rather

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<v Speaker 2>than punishment. You ask me, that's the perfect person to

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<v Speaker 2>have on your public say the committee. Okay, now the

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<v Speaker 2>good brother my song. The ny Post ran a headline

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<v Speaker 2>that said, Zoran Mundani taps ex con rapper who served

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<v Speaker 2>seven years for armed robbery as criminal justice advisor on

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<v Speaker 2>transition team.

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<v Speaker 3>And I just saw on the front page of the

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<v Speaker 3>New York Post to Day the front freaking page. They

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<v Speaker 3>have a picture of my soon with the headline Crime

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<v Speaker 3>Boss Mondnnie appoints rapper who served seven years for armed

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<v Speaker 3>robbery as justice advisor.

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<v Speaker 1>Number one. My song was convicted in nineteen ninety nine.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, he was like nineteen or twenty maybe twenty one,

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<v Speaker 2>who served seven years for armed robbery as criminal justice

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<v Speaker 2>advisor on transition team.

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<v Speaker 1>Where do we begin? Number one?

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<v Speaker 2>My song was convicted in nineteen ninety nine. Okay, he

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<v Speaker 2>was like nineteen or twenty maybe twenty one. He was

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<v Speaker 2>sentenced to seven to fourteen years, came home on parole

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<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and six, and.

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<v Speaker 1>He's been a model citizen ever since. He's a community

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<v Speaker 1>act this Okay. He spends years.

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<v Speaker 2>He spent years volunteering as a violence interrupt He has

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<v Speaker 2>an organization called Raising Kings, a nonprofit group that teaches

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<v Speaker 2>classes the inmates.

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<v Speaker 1>At Rikers Island. Okay. Benny Bosio I think his name is.

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<v Speaker 2>He's the president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association said

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<v Speaker 2>it is both disheartening and deeply disturbing that individuals who

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<v Speaker 2>are convicted felons and have a history of breaking the

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<v Speaker 2>law are being given the opportunity to help shape the

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<v Speaker 2>future of New York's criminal justice system.

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<v Speaker 1>Huh, Bennie, are you serious?

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<v Speaker 2>You are corrections officer who doesn't believe in people who

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<v Speaker 2>have been corrected. Masan has first hand lived experience with

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<v Speaker 2>the system.

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<v Speaker 1>He understands communities that.

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<v Speaker 2>Have been disproportionately affected by over policing, mass and consceration.

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<v Speaker 1>He walked the walk and he survived it. Okay, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what you should have.

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<v Speaker 2>Want a symbol of a more restorative, human centered model,

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<v Speaker 2>not just this tough on crime system that we've been using.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, he has a redemptive story. Isn't that what we want? Ours?

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<v Speaker 1>Redemption only for everybody but black men.

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<v Speaker 2>They always want to reduce us to our worst moments,

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<v Speaker 2>and they never want to acknowledge our growth. My son

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<v Speaker 2>can reach people that Zoran or no other politician can,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's what they don't want. That's what they are

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<v Speaker 2>afraid of. They don't want more stories like my son.

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<v Speaker 2>They want black men in prison forever. They don't want

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<v Speaker 2>no redemption for us. And that's why I love Mundannie's

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<v Speaker 2>choices because he picked someone in people.

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<v Speaker 1>But in the case of my son.

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<v Speaker 2>He's picked someone who has lived through incarceration and now

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<v Speaker 2>advocates for reform.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to all these critics.

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<v Speaker 2>You know you say you want criminal justice reform and

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<v Speaker 2>then get mad when somebody who's actually been through the

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<v Speaker 2>damn system gets a seat at the table. What grop

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<v Speaker 2>ain't always pretty and expertise don't always come in a suit.

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<v Speaker 1>Zorn picks someone with a pass.

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<v Speaker 2>To lead us into the future, and I, for one, loved,

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<v Speaker 2>please give all these critics Zoran Mndnnie's transition team the

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<v Speaker 2>biggest he Huh. I can't believe that they got mice

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<v Speaker 2>on on the front of the I'm adding this to

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the chat. I really can't believe that

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<v Speaker 2>they got mice on the front of the New York

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<v Speaker 2>Post with the headline crime boss.

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<v Speaker 3>This this gotta be liable, yo, Absolutely, this man a

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<v Speaker 3>crime boss.

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<v Speaker 1>This man ain't been to prison. The man with the.

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<v Speaker 2>Prison in nineteen ninety nine, came home on parole in

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand and six, has been a model citizen ever since.

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<v Speaker 2>How can you put him on the front page of

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<v Speaker 2>the New York Post and call him a crime boss?

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<v Speaker 1>This happen to be something of defamation or something that's away,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's so crazy. All the positive things he did

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<v Speaker 1>in the community, all the positive things he did from

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<v Speaker 1>New York City, all the positive things he's done around

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<v Speaker 1>the country. Never in the paper.

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<v Speaker 2>This man is And by the way, you have him

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<v Speaker 2>on with another one of his initiatives, the boycott black Murder.

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<v Speaker 2>His T shirt literally says boycott black murder. His hat

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<v Speaker 2>says boycott black murder. That's who this man is. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>how could you all like this is this is crazy?

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<v Speaker 1>This is great. This gotta be liable in some way

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<v Speaker 1>shape or for him. Come on, man, yeah, well, thank

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